2. Berlin, ibid., 28–29. Peter Gay, noting the tradition by which the Enlightenment is delimited to “within a hundred-year span beginning with the English Revolution and ending with the French Revolution,” then compellingly identifies it as “the work of three overlapping, closely associated generations.” See his The Enlightenment: An Interpretation; [I] The Rise of Modern Paganism (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966), 17.